Ltc tgan :43 a t t Seventy-three Years of Editorial Freedom .. VOL. LXXV, No. 1 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1964 Russell Buntin Lead Hoo per's Basketball to Bid Dfor Big Ten, NCAA Titles ost ollar -z_ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ .A11 lihIt ,ate , g. ..,,. ....v.r. r y{ , d;. I it ?li i ! ! .t. Gl ..7 Ll111G by Charlie Towle Contributing Sports Editor "Well, it will be all you guys next year." So said a Duke sportswriter after watching his team eliminate Michigan at the NCAA final in Kansas City last year. "It" was the NCAA title and in his most ,gracious Southern manner our friend from Durham, N.C. was the first to do what a lot of basketball prognosticaters will be doing this year - picking Michigan to grab off all the basketball goodies they can palm their collective hands around. With the loss of only one starter from last year's quintet, guard Bob Cantrell, and the return of All America guard Cazzie Russell and All America center Bill Bun- tin Michigan basketball should see the continuation of a rise in bas- ketball power that carried the Wolverines to third place in the NCAA tournament last year as well as being co-champions of the Bib Ten with Ohio State. The Flaws Basketball coach Dave Strack is not without a few problems, how- ever. The first problem is to find a replacement for Bob Cantrell at guard. Strack seemed to indicate after the NCAA tournament last year that the frontrunner for this positions is John Clawson- Clawson stands 6' 4" and his style of play seems to be similar, to that of 6' 5" Russell, though naturally not as good. Although he played in 16 games last year his total points, 23, show that he did not have that much actual game time. Michigan with Clawson in the lineup would be a very unusual team - they already were slightly unusual last year. Both Buntin and Russell showed a propensity last year towards playing more like a forward than a center or guard. Now with the addition of still another man who likes to By TOM WEINBERG get in under the basket, Clawson,T W Michigan will have in essence five' Students, faculty and employees forwards on the floor. The rrost of the University will be charged guardlike one of the group, in $1 for each basketball game they fact, is probably Larry Tregoning, attend next season. this year's Captain. The Board in Control of Inter- Strack is counting.on Tregoning collegiate Athletics.announced the to solve another problem provid- decision to abandon the athletic ing a holler guy to replace Can- coupon system for automatic ad- trell. Tregoning should have no mission to basketball games last trouble filling this role. spring. T HE SPECTATOR by Tom Rowland I remember when I was a kid, for entertainment the show cost 14 cents-saw Tom Mix western spectacular, saw latest segment of Batman serial, ate big bag of popcorn valued at 10 cents. What price progress? Hang on to your wallets, le pickpocketuer abounds about the grounds: Yost Field House, Michigan Stadium- and the Athletic Administration Building. Twelve dollars for football, about twelve more for basketball, ten more portraits of Mr. Washing- ton out of tuition. And if hockey is on your list of favorites, add a dollar a game more. In small addition, the price of popcorn has risen with the national debt, the cost of a single cold hot dog is astronomical and the lines to the washrooms are unreal. To the average freshman who has yet to encounter sex, Colt .45, and Chem 106 exams, it may hardly seem worth the working out. But Saturday afternoons in the General Library can be depressing, and the show at the corner of Main and Stadium Boulevard is a big one. There the largest college-owned stadium in the country houses the excitement of a football Saturday that really doesn't necessitate a national grid powerhouse to make the show worthwhile. It had better not. But you'll see some of the top college football in the country-Rose Bowl champs Illinois, Heismann Trophy winner Roger Staubach and the Navy grid crew, Tommy Myers trying to quarter- back Northwestern to the top. Coming Up . .. The home team will be better this fall, too. A big chunk of Bump Elliott's middle line is gone via diploma, but the quarterbacks look sharp, last year's host of top ends returns, and speed-some- thing lacking since the days of McRae and Pace-is on the upswing. It appears as if there'll be improvement all around the Big Ten, with early season predictions putting Illinois and Ohio State at the top. Despite the word of moan from East Lansing that "everyone" is gone, don't count out Michigan State as a strong dark horse candidate. It's the year of the mass substitution-a rule change has made it almost unlimited, bringing back the days of two-platoon football. When the clock is stopped, a coach may now throw as many new players into the game as he wants, and he can insert two even when the clock is running. But it's not all pigskin in Michi- gan Stadium. In the Crisler pack-t age deal you also get the best college band in the country- they've never lost a game-plus an assortment of goodies, includ- ing a troupe o grinning, bouncing, jumping, male cheerleaders, a Block M section, and, at halftime, the "passing up" of some passed out fan upthe rows of the west h . stands.3 "Band, take the field," and herex they come, 20,000 beats a second,> or something like that. Then on. with the cheerleaders and a sneak preview of next winters gym nastics and diving teams. The first BATMAN time you'll scream (you thought for sure they were going to drop him), the second time you'll laugh. third time you'll grin. The next time you'll wonder why they don't think up some new routine, and then you'" wonder why they don't have girl cheerleaders. The cheerleaders are worse at basketball games (no trampoline) -so is the band (poor acoustics). The field house is a crypt. And the basketball team is about the best in the nation. A five-star attraction, sports fans-Cazzie Russell, Bill Buntin, Oliver Darden, Larry Tregoning, an as-yet-unnamed second guard make a show that almost balances the two-and-a-half hour wait that anyone who desires a seat must endure. A seat is defined as anything within binocular range. Ready for More .. . The Wolverine cagers took a third place in the NCAA finals last year, losing to Duke in the semis after tying with Ohio State for the Big Ten title. Only guard Bobby Cantrell is gone from the starting five with graduation, and Coach Dave Strack appears to have the goods to go an even better season than last year's-the best in Michigan history. It looks like the last year for the immortal Yost edifice, and while the pressure is on to get Cazzie and the boys out of the State Street dungeon, there's a lot of history that will always haunt the first big college field house. Over in the Coliseum you can pay a dollar to learn how to pronounce the names of the hockey stars and watch the Wolverines go after a second straight NCAA title. Polonic may not be bad, but Besides Clawson other guard candidates are old hands John Thompson and Tom Ludwig and newcomers Dennis Banke and Odell Handcox. Thompson came to Michigan with the same freshman team that contained Russell, Oliver Darden, Clawson, and Jim Myers. He was regarded as the best out- side shot in the bunch, but so far in his freshman and sophomore years Thompson has. been only ordinary. Ludwig is one of the hardest workers on the basketball team. This and his maturity, he is a senior, could win him the starting guard spot. Banke was the consistent per- former on the freshman team last year. He displayed an uncanny ability to get the right plays going. He is the most likely sophomore to break into the lineup. Handcox, another sophomore is a real long- shot to see much action this year. His ebbullient style of play, how- ever, blends with that of Russell and this could give him a boost. Strengths So much for pessimism. Now for the brighter facts about this year's team. If Clawson starts, the starting lineup, will average nearly 6' 6" and should be even more brutal on the boards than they were last year when they See NCAA, Page 5 The fee for athletic coupons re- mains at $12 for students and $15 for faculty and employees, and will entitle the purchaser to a re- served seat at each of the six football games in Michigan Sta- dium in 1964. The student coupons will again be sold at registration in the fall. Athletic Director H. 0. Crisler mentioned skyrocketing costs and the need to supplement athletic revenues in explaining the policy that eliminates free admission to basketball games. Crisler said the board also felt - - - - MICHIGAN STADIUM, home of the Michigan football team looms large and empty in front of the athletic administration. In order to make the Michigan athletic success formula work Michigan Stadium has to be filled. Last year in front of a mediocre team the benches stood at nearly 40 per cent empty in the Stadium. This year things look somewhat better for the football team; but it will take at least one great year before Michigan can hope to draw good crowds again. FOOTBALL PREVIEW: Gridders Sharper For Rough Big Ten, Elliott Says Experience and Depth Key to Success in Stronger League 'M' Collects Alil-S ports Title Again With three second places and a third place 'in the spring sports competition Michigan rapped up its fourth consecutive Big Ten all-sports crown. The seconds in track, tennis and baseball and the third in golf gave Michigan 35 points based on a system of ten points for a first, nine points for a second, etc. The Wolverine teams ended up with 98% points. Runnerup was Michigan State with 88% points. Using the more refined quality points system which divides the total number of points each school earns by the number of sports they compete in gives Michigan an even more impressive looking margin. Michigan had 8.95 quality points to second place Michigan State's 6.81. Last year Michigan's margin of victory for the all-sports chai- pionship was only 7.54 to second place Wisconsin's 6.88. Besides the spring sports Michi- gan got its other points for first place finishes in gymnastics, hockey, indoor track and wrest- ling, a tie for first in basketball, See 'M', Page 4 H. O. (FRITZ) CRISLER much of the confusion caused last basketball season with the distri- bution of tickets would be elim- inated. The precise implementation of the new plan will not be announc- ed until next fall,nbut Crisler in- dicated that the tickets would probably be sold in a manner sim- ilar to the way they were exchang- ed last season. At that time, on the day before each home game tickets were given in exchange for punches on athletic cards. The implementation of the new policy will, according to Crisler, solve many of the problems caused last season by long lines and over- sold demand for admission. Last year some 19,000 people had claims to seats at the basketball games in Yost FieldHouse, where the ca- pacity in non reserved seats is ap- proximately 6200. The increased revenue that is expected from the sale of admis- sion to basketball games is not earmarked toward the construc- tion of the new $3.5 million sports arena on Stadium Blvd., according to Crisler. Rather, he commented that the increased revenue will be applied to the total athletic budget in an effort to combat rising costs. By BILL BULLARD Sports Editor Coach Bump Elliott says his football team will be improved this fall over last season's team which compiled a 3-4-2 record but the catch is that he expects Wol- verine opponents to be improved also. "Improvement 1i & relative thing," Elliott says. "We'll field, a better team this fall but so will the teams we'll play. I'll definitely say we'll be a betterfootball team because we'll have more speed, more depth, and more experience. And in some cases we'll have more ability. Overall, we'll just have better per- sonnel." The increased depth will come at an opportune time as substi- tution rules have been liberalized for this season. There is now un- limited substitution when the clock is stopped and a maximum of two substitutions at other times when the clock is running. Thus Elliott feels he will be able to platoon more than under the old rules. Strong and Weak With 25 lettermen returning, El- liott points out the team is strong in some areas but weak at other spots. The interior line-especial- ly the left side-is a special con- cern for Elliott and new offensive line coach Tony Mason. Mason came to Ann Arbor just before spring practice after an almost fantastic Ohio high school coaching tenure. His overall coach- ing record was 87-9-7 and includ- de a 47-game unbeaten streak at Niles McKinley High School over the past five seasons. Mason re- places Jack Fouts who resigned to become head coach at his alma mater, Ohio Wesleyan. Mason and Elliott's problem started when left guard Joe 0'- Donnell, last season's captain, and left tackle Tom Keating used up their eligibility in the 1963 season. This left two big holes in the line. to be filled and no experienced replacements in sight. Inexperience At left guard, Elliott tentatively puts junior Bill Keating (Tom's brother), senior DavegButler, and ;junior Dennis Flanagan, a con- verted end, in his three-deep line- up. This trio had little game ex- perience last fall and none of the three is a letterwinner. Another non-letterwinner, jun- ior Chuck Kines,khas been put into the left tackle slot. He is backed up by a pair of letter- winners, junior Chuck Ruzicka and senior John Yanz. There is more experience on the right side of the line at guard and tackle. Senior Rich Hahn at guard and junior Bill Yearby at tackle were starters last season. Behind Hahn arerveteran senior John Marcum and Bob Mielke, a sophomore who has been con- verted from fullback. Right behind the 6'3", 230-pound Yearby is junior Tom Mack whose height and weight measurements are about the same as Yearby's. Mack did not letter as a sopho- more end last fall. But after switching to tackle he won the Meyer Morton Trophy as the most improved player in spring practice. Third position at right tackle is held jointly by senior lettermen Gerald Mader and Ar- nie Simkus. See ELLIOTT, Page 10 THROUGH THE BULL'S EYE by Bill Bullard Financial Report or... ..Football Uber Alles Football is king at the University of Michigan. That's the way it should be. That's the way it has been. And that's the way it will be unless my faith in Bump Elliott and his assistants is misplaced. The importance of a winning football team is sometimes rationalized away by those who justifiably point with pride to the outstanding Wolverine teams in all other sports. But without a representative football team, the whole athletic program is hurt. To put it bluntly, the athletiQ department needs the money which a winning football team will bring in. Skyrocketing costs have occurred at a time when receipts, made up largely of football attend- ance revenues, have not kept pace with the costs. There have been over 40,000 empty seats on an average at each game in the last two seasons. This compares most -un- favorably with such years as 1950, 1956 and 1957 when an average of over 80,000 fans attended each game. In 1949, at- tendance was at an alltime record of almost 94,000 fans per game. And this was at a time when the Stadium's capacity was only slightly over 97,000. The one thing that these years had in common was that these were winning years. More importantly, the preceeding year was usually a winning year. The 1949 attendance record was set, for example, after two straight undefeated seasons. Everybody Loves a Winner.. . There can be no doubt that a winning team makes more money than a losing team. But how does this affect the other sports and athletics in general? The example of the new basketball arena probably answers the question bettew than any other. Basketball has been growing rapidly in popularity and the need to replace Yost Field House has been acknowledged by everyone concerned. For two seasons now the attendance problem at basket- ball games has been crucial, yet Wolverine fans will probably have to suffer through two more seasons before the new arena is completed. With larger revenues from football, the new arena would be ready for next season if not before. But a winning football team }s important for other reasons besides the money angle. Alumni and the general public probably read more about the Wolverine football team in their local news- papers than about any other facet or activity of the University. The success or failure of the team makes a big impression on these groups. It is hardly a good advertisement for the University when it fails at an activity which most people easily identify with the University. It has always been my opinion that whaat makes the Univer- sity of Michigan stand out among the great Universities is the overall excellence achieved in many varied activities. The foot- ball team is perhaps an insignificant part of the total picture. But its impact on the alumni and public is certainly not. Among the supposedly apathetic student body, the football team is still the great unifier. It represents the University in a tangable way that almost everyone can identify with. Without the football team, the graduate student and the undergraduate, the engineering student and the one in liberal arts, the serious student and the one engrossed in student activities have little in common. Good Prospects .. The prospects for this particular season look good. Last season's squad was generally a steady outfit, with only a little offensive punch lacking to make it a winning team. On paper, the Wolverines this season have the best personnel in the Big Ten outside of Illinois and Ohio State. Transforming this material into winning points on the scoreboard is the job of Elliott and his staff. Although I personally have been overly optimistic in the past two seasons and could be making the same mistake again, I look for a winning team and marked improve- ment as the season progresses. At Michigan, although football is the No. one sport, there has never been a need to downgrade the other sports to make football look good. With the advent of athletic scholarships SUCCESSFUL SEASON: Hockey Sextet Reverses Dismal Season, Last Year To Win National Championship By JIM TINDALL Few hockey fans would have believed it possible that Michi- gan's team could come back from the WCHA cellar to the NCAA championship, but the puckmen surprised everyone. The 1961-62 season was one of the most disappointing ones for Wolverine hockey fans. Michi- gan was able to win only seven games, while losing 14, and tying three. The 1963-64 season was a complete reversal as Michigan won 24, while losing four and ty- ing one. The accomplishments of last year's team are reflected in the trophies and awards that they brought home. These include the Big Ten hockey championship, the two WCHA All-Stars, the NCAA Most Valuable Player, the WCHA scoring champion, and the win- ner of the Big Ten Scholar ath- lete award. Perhaps the most grat- ifying of all these honors was the WCHA Coach of the Year award which was given to Al Renfrew who is in his eighth season as Wolverine mentor. The awards alone, however. do not give a picture of the entire season. The statistics have a story to tell, too. Michigan scored 217 goals, a new record, for an aver- age of 7.5 goals per game. Mean- while, a defense that improved throughout the season, held op- ponents to a meager 2.7 goals per game. 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